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A Superior Court judge has decided that a motorist convicted of driving under the influence twice within five years could not be charged with a felony based on an alleged third offense. The defendant driver argued that he could not ...

The state’s century-old “civil death statute” precludes a lifetime inmate from bringing a negligence action for injuries he sustained in an attack by a fellow prisoner at the Adult Correctional Institutions, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has held. G.L. §13-6-1, ...

Employers have their work cut out for them if they want to ensure that workers they consider to be independent contractors do not at some point in the future have tenable grounds to claim they should have been classified as ...

An arbitrator could order the reinstatement of a town employee whose work-related injury kept him off the job for more than a year, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has ruled in a split decision. The town of Cumberland argued that, ...

The Coastal Resources Management Council’s decision to approve Newport’s application to extend the Ann Street Pier cannot be reviewed until the littoral rights of the city and two adjacent marinas are ruled on, a Superior Court judge has found. One ...

Amendments to a state statute extending the duration of sex offender registration do not violate the ex post facto clauses of the United States and Rhode Island constitutions. Writing on behalf of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, Justice Francis X. ...

The Providence Water Supply Board can require properties with four units or more to have backflow prevention devices, a Superior Court judge has determined. The plaintiff, the owner of a six-unit residential property, claimed to be exempt based on the ...

A secured creditor was entitled to relief from the automatic stay in a commercial bankruptcy based on the debtor’s agreement to waive future protections as part of an earlier Chapter 11 reorganization, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge has determined. The ...

The Rhode Island Supreme Court has ruled in a split decision that evidence of sexual misconduct allegedly committed by a defendant between 1977 and 1980 could be introduced at his trial on charges of child molestation and sexual assault. The ...

Discrimination claims asserted by a terminated employee of Roger Williams Medical Center must be arbitrated under an agreement that he was required to sign by the purchasers of the hospital, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. “Consistent with Rhode ...